Improved driving-rein and bridle



i To all persone tofwlwm 4these presents may come:

WILLIAMH. WALL, 0F osToN,MASSACHUSETTS.

Leners 'Patent No. 9o,139dated May 18, 1869.

mPRovED DRIVING-REIN AND Damme.

Ihe Schedule `referred toiu these Lettera .Patent and making part o! the same.

i "Be it known that I, WlILLIAM H. WALL, ot Boston,

` of the count-y of Suffolk, and- State 'of Massachusetts, have invented a newand useful lmprovementin Dri\7` fing-Heins and Bridles; and do hereby declare the same to be fullydescribed in the following specification, and

represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figurel is a top view, and

Figure 2 a side elevation of my invention, afs applied 'to a, horse. y i

1n the said drawings-#- i A denotes a horse, or that portion thereof to which my improved` bridle is applied.

L B represents the bit, arranged in the usual manner i`u the mouth oi' thefanimal.

The headst-all is shown at O, the throatlatch,or

fastening-strap thereof being represented at d.

` In carrying out my invention, I run each cheekl strap lt through one ofthe rings b -of' the bit,tand conneet such strap with'one of two `blanches c d of one of the driviug-reinsR- R, the other branch also going y through the bit-ring, or a hanger, i, therefrom, and heilig xedto one of the branches of a standing marv tin gale, M.

lfurt-herinore, the connected rein-branch and cheek- 1 Apieee of .each side of the bridle may also be rove through aneye,c, affixed to one end of the check-rein `lil, in which case the purchase of the reins ou the bit will be greatly increased.

From the above, it will be seen that each drivingrein is provided vwith twobranches, c' d', one of which is connected with the martingale, and the other with the cheek-piece of the headst-all, and that both of the branches are rove through the bit-ring, or one goes'through it, and the other through a ring, orhangerdependent from it.

The check-rein is to be hitched, in the usual man? ner, in a water-hook, f, off-the saddle g of the harness, and each of the driving-reins may go through Va. D, or guide, It, projecting from such saddle.

On drawing back the driving-reins, the head ot" the animal will not only be drawn downward, with a purchase-on the martingale, the check-rein, and the headstall, but the bit,at the same time, will be drawn upward into the mouth.

My invention will operate to great advantage in controlling an unruly horse. f What I claim as my invention, is-

l. lhefcouibination of the driving-reins, headstall, and bit, substantially in manner as desoribed,ea,ch

drivingrein, under such mode of combining the parts,

being made with two branches connected to the martingale and cheek-pieces of theheadstall, and applied t0 'one of the rings of the bit, substantially as and .so

as to operate therewith, as described.

` 2. And, in combination therewith, the applicatio of one of the branches, each,` of the driving-reins to the check-rein, substantially in manner-,and so as to operate therewith, as hereinbefore explained.

W WM. H. WALL. Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, SAMUEL N. Plena. 

